Perhaps you’ve been wondering what Quimby’s alumni Brian “International” $hapiro is up to these days. Well, here’s a peek into what his Exciting, Educational, Emotional, Enviable life in Exhillarating Ecuador is like:
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Monthly Archive for June, 2010
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Major excitement as we prepare for Dan Clowes to arrive here in an hour! He’ll be here signing his new book Wilson. And the snacks we bought from the grocery store were rung up by a dude working, Wilson was his name. Weird!
Zines
Serial Killers Unite #1 by S K U $2.00 – Serial Killers Unite is a super interesting zine that starts to live up to its sensational name. This debut issue hinges on real letter excerpts from correspondence with serial killer Harrison Graham, who left his 6 victims’ corpses rotting in his living room. The author also puts out there that there’s tons more serial killer letters where that came from, just in case you’re interested. Reading through a few pages of sick fuck writing like this makes me glad some other weirdo is keeping these archives so I don’t have to. -EF
NUMBx #1 (Bukowski Ironhide Poe and More) $2.00
Parts for Making a Fence a Booklet for Creating the Illusion of a Backyard Anywhere There’s a Wall by Gary Kachadourian $3.00 – This is the guy who does amazing black and white patterns of grass, plants and the like. Now he’s got all these other wonderful patterns! Decorate in style.
Brief Survey of Video Game Landscapes by Gary Kachadourian $1.50
Drawings From a Heroic Fantasy World by Gary Kachadourian $1.50
Motors Revised 05/28/10 192 illustrations by Gary Kachadourian $2.50
Welcome to Bend Basic No Frills Edition Population 80995 by Laura Walker $1.50
MAP (Manual of Architechtural Possibilities) #2: Quarantine $6.50
Carousel of Progress by Max G. Morton $8.34 – From the author of such titles as 23, Indestructible Wolves of the Apocalypse, Looking For Magic and more! Also, see his new titles Knights In Satans Service, also a strangely-priced $8.34.
Portage vol 1 #1 Jun 10 by var. $5.00
Scheming As Always – Hungry as Always $2.00
Watch the Closing Doors #51 by Fred Argoff $2.50
Comics/Comix/Mini Comics
Long Distant Grunts by Josh Doster $6.00
Shaman Man #1 Dairy Aisle by Brett Muller $2.00
Shaman Man #2 Dewey Decimal System by Brett Muller $2.00
Bottle of Rum by Melanie Carson $3.00
Persimmon The Loneliest Little Unicorn by Melanie Carson $2.00
Phi I Dont Actually Own a Persian Rug GG Allen $4.00
Life As Art by Matt Bloomstrand $1.00
Herman The Manatee vol 3 Goes to Jail by Jason Viola $3.00
Tales Designed to Thrizzle #6 by Michael Kupperman (Fantagrphics) $4.95 – For schizzle.
Wowee Zonk #2 by var. $3.00
Black Mass #’s 1-3 by Kyle Patrick (prices of each range from $3.00 to $4.00)
Video Tonfa Feedback #7 Split $2.00
Killing Time Before the Party Comics About Playing in a Band by People Who Play ed. by Justin Melkmann (Melkmann Comics) $3.00 – Exactly what you want it to be. With contributions from lots of artists.
Attack of the Zombie Soy Bot #7 and #8 $1.00 and $2.00 respectively.
No More Fall by Lisa Cline $3.00
Chronicles of Edgebright & Leofwyn #1 the Gift by Jim Terry $3.00
Graphic Novels/Trade Paperbacks
Neil Young’s Greendale by var. (Vertigo) $19.99 – Yes, as in a hardcover graphic novel of Neil Young’s Greendale, a concept album and film the musician released in 2003. Yup.
Moving Pictures by Kathryn and Stuart Immonen (Top Shelf) $14.95
Golden Collection of Klassic Krazy Kool Kids Komics, ed. by Craig Yoe (IDW) $34.99
Doom Patrol vol 1 We Who Are About To Die by Keith Giffen and Matthew Clark (DC) $14.99
Hellboy vol 10 The Crooked Man and Others by Mike Mignola (DArk Horse) $17.99
Temperance by Cathy Malkasian (Fantagraphics) $22.99
How I Made it to Eighteen A Mostly True Story by Tracy White (Roaring Brook) $16.99
To Teach: The Journey In Comics (see DIY above)
When Commas Meet Kryptonite: Classroom Lessons From The Comic Book Project by Michael Bitz (see DIY above)
DIY, How-to & Food
To Teach: The Journey In Comics by William Ayers, illustrated by Ryan Alexander-Tanner (Teachers College Press) $15.95 – Event here with both author and artist June 19th!
When Commas Meet Kryptonite: Classroom Lessons From The Comic Book Project by Michael Bitz (Teachers College Press) $23.95
Barolo by Matthew Gavin Frank $24.95 – The author learned how to be a chef in Italy. While living in nothing but a tent. Here are his adventures.
How to Recycle Paper by Sean Hernandez $1.00 – A nice 10-step how-to zine of basic papermaking. Sean’s drawing style reminds me a bit of Lynda Barry’s here- full of grit and dustballs and perfect for illusrating messy crafts projects.
Fiction
Doorway Unto Darkness by Owen Keehnen $15.00
Slut Lullabies by Gina Frangello $15.00
Steampunk, Speculative and Science Fiction
Metatropolis ed. by Scalzi John $24.99 – Welcome to the dawn of uncivilization. Anthology of stories from today’s cutting-edge science-fiction writers, about those who live for technology battling those who would die rather than embrace it.
Hylozoic by Rudy Rucker (Tor) $15.99
Art & Design Books
Fatal Distraction by Sonja Ahlers (Insomniac Press) $16.95 – Pop culture-influenced collage. Like My Little Pony goes to hell.
Typeforce: The Annual Chicago Show of Emerging Typographic Allstars Feb Mar 10 by var. $9.95 – From the annual show of this title at Bridgeport’s Co-Prosperity Sphere. Getchyr font on.
Outer Limits
2012: Science or Superstition DVD (Disinformation) $19.98
Cult of the Suicide Bomber: Ex-CIA Agent Robert Baer Uncovers the Mystery of This Weapon of Terror DVD (Disinformation) $19.98
Cult of the Suicide Bomber 2: Inside the Hidden World of Women and the Western Suicide Bombers DVD (Disinformation) $19.98
Search of the Great Beast: Aleister Crowley The Wickedest Man In the World DVD (Disinformation) $19.98
Tattoo Machine: Tall tales True Stories and My Life In Ink by Jeff Johnson $15.00
Magazines/Literary Journals
Exquisite Corpse Annual, Journal of Letters and Life #2 2010 by Andrei Codrescu $19.99
Kilter Journal of Gothic Art Chicago #8 Sum 10 $5.00
Tokion vol 3 #5 $6.99
High Times Aug 10 $5.99
Signal to Noise #58 Sum 10 $4.95
Green Teacher #88 Spr 10 $7.95
Versal #8 $15.00
Poetry/Chap Books
Sagittarius Agitprop by Matthew Gavin Frank $14.00
Music Books/DVD
Cover Story vol 2 Obscure and Outrageous Album Art, curated by Wax Poetics (PowerHouse) $24.95
RIP: A Remix Manifesto (Disinformation) DVD by Brett Gaylor $19.98 – About mashup music culture.
Sexy
OP Original Plumbing #3 Trans Male Quarterly Health and Safer Sex Issue $8.00
Also:
Gadabout Traveling Film Festival DVD Five Years of Driving Around and Breaking DVD $10.00
Shelter Offset Print by Jennie Smith (Little Otsu) $10.00
First Gear DVD An Introduction To Bike Safety by The Bicycle Transportation Alliance $25.00
I Love Public Transportation Button $1.50
Not New This Week But New to Our Website For Purchase:
Cinema Sewer #23 $4.00 – Cinema Sewer is the direct heir and foremost survivor of decades of mayhem-trash-film fanzines and Robin Bougie has proven time and again that there’s still meatballs to be pulled out of the gravy. His tastes are extreme but also interestingly ecclectic, and this issue includes a rundown of his favorite noir films and a review of a Betty Dobson feminist masturbation video along with plenty of <dare-I-say> thoughtful reviews of rare smut and grindcore. -EF
New Fuck You Adventures in Lesbian Reading $13.95 – This amazing, badass, randy and rowdy lesbian literature anthology came out in the dirty, dirty 90’s and features amazing poems and prose by Sapphire and Laurie Weeks. Semiotext sez: “Currently in its 4th printing, this LAMBDA-award winning anthology crosses all boundaries of taste and style, to bring together stories by writers as diverse as Sapphire, Joan Larkin, Linda Yablonsky, Honor Moore, Carmelita Tropicana, Dodie Bellamy, and Laurie Weeks. The book’s thirty-nine contributors cover virtually the entire range that lesbians do: having a baby, buying heroin, watching a parent die, walking a dog. But unlike other lesbian anthologies that either exclude or fetishize sexuality, sex in The New Fuck You erupts as anarchically as it does in life, rejecting all “thematic consistency” and drawing from the new capitals of de-centered America, from DC riot grrls to Sin City, Louisiana, to white-girl flashbacks into a black reformatory in Ohio. More brawl than mall, this compilation asserts a new form of female underground culture that is as formless, interesting and as surprising as lesbian life today.”
While you were crying into your beer and brats at home, upset that your Memorial Day barbeque was rained out, Quimby’s had a blast with Chris Besinger (left), who read from his book The Usual Beast and the bands Group Icky Rats and ONO (right).
Bestsellers last week:
1. Craphound #4 Clowns Devils and Bait $12.00 – Holy Shit, the Craphound #4 reprint landed and it makes me smile like Ren and dance like Stimpy! Tejaratchi’s obsessive hi-con picture pages are brimming with the sauciest devils, the juciest bait and the most ambiguously legal clowns. Thrilling, terrifying, mind-blowing, hands down one of the world’s greatest zines! – EF
2. Cinema Sewer #23 by Robin Bougie $4.00 – Cinema Sewer is the direct heir and foremost survivor of decades of mayhem-trash-film fanzines and Robin Bougie has proven time and again that there’s still meatballs to be pulled out of the gravy. His tastes are extreme but also interestingly ecclectic, and this issue includes a rundown of his favorite noir films and a review of a Betty Dobson feminist masturbation video along with plenty of <dare-I-say> thoughtful reviews of rare smut and grindcore. -EF
3. Is It the Future Yet by Corinne Mucha $3.00 – What does the future hold for you? Well, I predict you will fall madly in love with Corinne’s amazing new mini-comic, Is It the Future Yet?, which she made ‘specially for Quimby’s! I see you laughing out loud at the fresh psychic hijinx and time-travel schemes that grace every delightful page. I can see your love for this comic growing rich, deep, and strong and you will find it brings you much good luck and happiness as years go by…Yes, my friend, the future looks very bright indeed!
4. Monocle vol 4 #34 Jun 10 $10.00
5. Bust Jun Jul 10 $4.99
6. Bars Across America Drinking and Biking from Coast to Coast by John Greenfield $13.00
7. Hopes and Prospects by Noam Chomsky (Haymarket) $16.00 – In this urgent new book, Noam Chomsky surveys the dangers and prospects of our early twenty-first century. Exploring challenges such as the growing gap between North and South, American exceptionalism (including under President Barack Obama), the fiascos of Iraq and Afghanistan, the U.S.-Israeli assault on Gaza, and the recent financial bailouts, he also sees hope for the future and a way to move forward-in the democratic wave in Latin America and in the global solidarity movements that suggest “real progress toward freedom and justice.” Hopes and Prospects is essential reading for anyone who is concerned about the primary challenges still facing the human race.
8. Giant Robot #65 $4.99
9. Comics Section [from the] San Francisco Panorama of McSweeneys #33 $10.00
10. Boneshaker #42-500 A Bicycling Almanac (Wolverine Farm Publishing) $6.00 – “The Practical Bicyclist’s Handbook” and “Basic Field and Street Manual for Utilitarian Riding.” ‘Tis indeed! The farmer’s almanac for those on bikes, Boneshaker’s a fascinating compiled book of history, wit, wisdom, lore and prediction. Bamboo bikes? The time has come! Vintage posters? Yes please! Full moon forecasting? All there! Although they seem to think that there are noodles in potato salad, on all other counts this is real solid. -EF
OH MY GOD WE HAVE QUIMBY’S T-SHIRTS NOW!
Neil, Mini-Comix Sommalier
Thumbs up
All the time people ask us if we sell Quimby’s t-shirts and are sad when we tell them we don’t. Well guess what? We decided the time has come for us to cave in to the public’s demands. And we’re glad we did, because these shirts are totally hot. We have them in all manner of sizes! It features our logo, designed by Chris Ware, printed on black pre-shrunken cotton. It’s sweet, simple and to the point: QUIMBY’S! Available in the following sizes: Ladie’s: X Large, Large, Medium, Small – Men’s: XX Large, X Large, Large, Medium, Small – Youth: Size 2, 3, 4, 5/6. $14.99 each. Come on in and geddit! Or order one here. And while yer at it, get a Quimby’s totebag. We have those too! They’re $12.99. You may as well get a tattoo with our logo too, just to help us increase our brandocitinessesqueness. Yeah.
Zines
This Preferable Hell #1 $8.00
Dodgem Logic #2 Feb Mar 10 $4.25 – As in a zine. From Alan Moore. For reals.
Welcome to Flavor Country #19 by Kurt Morris $2.00 – With stories by Amy Adoyzie.
We Are Hardly Alone #1 Moon 3476 by Adrian Rew $1.00
Humble Humdrum Cotton Frock #2 A Twilight Teeter Into Oganic Esoterics by var. $3.00
Zine Columbia Win 09: Rusty Clutch Boom Boom and Inky Ruin $10.00 – Made in class at Columbia, here in Chicago
Fiction
Generation A SC by Douglas Coupland (Scribner) $15.00 – As in, Gen X but like, in the digital now. Or whatever.
Mesopotamia SC by Arthur Nersesian (Akashic) $15.95
Particular Sadness of Lemon Cake HC by Aimee Bender (Doubleday) $25.95
Anthropology of an American Girl by Hilary Thayer Hamann (Spiegel) $26.00
DIY How-to & Food
When There Is No Doctor: Preventive and Emergency Home Healthcare in Challenging Times by Gerard Doyle S MD (Process) $16.95
Ripe From Around Here A Vegan Guide to Local and Sustainable Eating No Matter Where You Live by Jae Steele (Arsenal Pulp) $23.95
New Farm Vegetarian Cookbook by Louise Hagler (Book Publishing Co.) $12.95
Graphic Novels/Trade Paperbacks
The Selves by Sonja Ahlers (D+Q) $19.95 – Don’t miss her here at Quimby’s this week! Thursday, June 10th, 7pm, with Anne Elizabeth Moore! Collageria of of well brushed merkins and precious patchwork womanhood. -EF – Kathleen Hanna said this feminist scrapbook memoir was “seductive, familiar and very funny.” It tells the story of different selves in a lifetime starting from baby to lady. The ‘character’ grows up throughout the pages. The cast includes: Hollie Hobbie, Drew Barrymore, the Olsen twins, Camille Claudel, Alice Munro, Degrassi kids, Angelina Jolie, and Stevie Nicks and Judy Chicago. These selves appear by way of collage, illustration and poetry.
FunnyMan the First Jewish Superhero From the Creators of Superman by var. (Feral House) $24.95
DMZ vol 8 Hearts and Minds TPB by Brian Wood and var. (Vertigo) $16.99
Final Crisis TPB by Grant Morrison and var. (DC) $19.99
Stuck Rubber Baby HC by Howard Cruse (Vertigo) $24.99 – New edition. Of the book. Um, not the band New Edition.
Jonah Hex HC No Way Back by var. (DC) $19.99
Freakangels vol 4 TPB by Warren Ellis (Avatar) $19.99
Made With 90 Recycled Art Basic Instructions by Scott Meyer (Dark Horse) $10.99
Criminal vol 4 Bad Night by Ed Brubaker and Sean Phillips (Icon) $14.99
Ex Machina Deluxe Edition vol 1 (Wildstrom) $29.99
Fantastic Four vol 1 by Hickman etc. (Marvel) $19.99
Sleeper seasons 1 and 2 by Ed Brubaker and Sean Phillips (Wildstorm) $24.99 each.
Runaways Escape to New York TPB by Brian K. Vaughan etc. (Marvel) $14.99
Runaways Live Fast HC by Brian K. Vaughan etc. (Marvel) $19.99
Steampunk
Yes, we have started a steampunk shelf. These are just some of the titles we have added. As more titles come in we’ll let you know. Some of these are not necessarily new books, but they are new to Quimby’s. What is steampunk, you say? There are tons of ways to describe it, but here are some helpful nouns and adjectives: neo-Victorian science fiction, sepia-toned goth, brass goggles, airships, gears, Britishness, clocks, cogs, all the while wearing your esteemed finery. For more info about the genre and other local Chicago-based steampunk happenings, see http://steampunkchicago.com/
The Difference Engine by William Gibson and Bruce Sterling (Bantam) $7.99
Diamond Age Or a Young Lady’s Illustrated Primer by Neal Stephenson $15.00
Mainspring by Jay Lake (Tor) $7.99
Steampunk ed. by Jeff and Ann Vandermeer (Tachyon) $14.95
Steampunk Style Jewelry Victorian Fantasy and Mechanical Necklaces Bracelets… by Jean Campbell (Creative P) $24.99
Souless: An Alexia Tarabotti Novel by Gail Carriger (Orbit) $7.99
Sex Guides, Culture and Play
Housewives At Play Mother Knows Best by Rebecca (Eros) $9.95
Cumming of Jizzus DVD Chelsea Chainsaw $18.00 – Another fine film from Cinema Sewer autour Robin Bougie.
Sleazy Slice #4 by Robin Bougie $6.00
Maximum Superexcitement #3 by Robin Bougie $4.00
Dear Mr Bougie #2 by Robin Bougie $4.00
Cinema Sewer #23 by Robin Bougie $4.00
Sex is Fun Creative Ideas for Exciting Sex by Kidder Kaper (Avery) $20.00
Nightlife by var. (Bruno Gmun) $33.99
Street Art/Lowbrow/Kinda Arty
Rock Paper Show Flatstock vol 1, ed. by Geoff Peveto (Soundscreen Design) $60.00 – Over 60 editorial contributors, including Aesthetic Apparatus, Craig Finn (the Hold Steady), John Foster (author, Masters of Poster Design), Clay Hayes (gigposters.com), Jeff Kleinsmith (Patent Pending), Jay Ryan (the Bird Machine), and Paula Scher (Pentagram).
I’m With Stupid the Artwork of Jeremy Fish (Upper Playground) $19.95
Stay High 149 by Sky Farrell and Chris Pape (Gingko) $19.95
In Plain View: 30 Years of Artworks Illegal and Otherwise by Dan Witz (Gingko) $39.95
Saber Mad Society New Edition by Saber (Gingko) $35.00
David Choe 30 Postcards (Chronicle) $9.95
Minimalist Coloring Book Paper Reflects All Colors by Craig Conley $11.95
Grotesk: A Decade of Swiss Design Lost in Brooklyn by Kimou Meyer (aka Grotesk) (Upper Playground) $29.95
Design
42 x 12 Cult of the Fixed (ProActif) $29.95
Eccentric Design (CYPI) $39.95
Vivid the Allure of Color In Design 102 Color Projects (Gingko) $39.95
20th Century Travel 100 Years of Globe Trotting Ads by var. (Taschen) $39.99
Memoir/Essay/Culture
I Was Looking for a Street by Charles Willeford (Picturebox) $15.95 – Memoir of the writer most known for his Miami-based crime novels featuring hardboiled detective Hoke Moseley, including Miami Blues and Sideswipe.
Coma by Pierre Guyotat [Semiotext(e)] $17.95 – The famous French writer of Eden Eden Eden fame writes about his coma.
Renegade Sportsman Drunken Runners Bike Polo Superstars Rollerderby Rebels by Zach Dundas (Riverhead) $15.00
Satiristas Comedians Contrarians Raconteurs and Vulgarians by var. (Harper) $29.99
Pink Noises Women on Electronic Music and Sound by Tara Rodgers (Duke) $23.95
Rockabillies by var. (Center) $50.00 – Fancy photo book of the rockabilly subculture.
Outer Limits
100 Under 140 by Gordon Meyer $10.95 – The time has come. Twitter as vehicle for humor.
Social Organization of The Computer Underground by Gordon Meyer $8.95
Field Guide to Identifiying Unicorns by Sound a Compact Handbook of Mythic… by Craig Conley $14.75
One Minute Mystic By Professor Oddfellow by Craig Conley $14.75
Hitlers Occult War by Michael Fitzgerald (Roberthale) $17.95
Weiser Field Guide to Cryptozoology Werewolves Dragons Skyfish Lizard Men… by Deena West Budd (Weiser) $14.95
Last Words of the Executed HC by Rob Elder (Univers of Chic) $22.50, forward by Studs Terkel – As seen in Time Out. Don’t miss Rob Elder’s event here at Quimby’s Thursday, June 24th, 7pm!
Magazines & Lit Journals
Believer #72 Jun 10 $8.00
Bizarre #163 Jun 10 $10.50
Wax Poetics #41 $9.99
Shook Magazine vol 1 #8 $7.99
Hip Mama #46 $5.95
True Detective vol 2 #21 $4.49
Eye Spy #67 $6.50
Murder Most Foul #76 $9.99
In These Times Jun 10 $3.50
Camera Obscura vol 1 Sum 10 $12.00
Extra vol 23 #6 May 10 $4.95
Tattoo Life #64 $6.99
Progressive Jun 10 $3.95
Black Clock #12 $13.00
GLQ vol 16 #3 Journal of Lesbian and Gay Studies 2010 $12.00
Skunk vol 6#2 $5.99
UFO Magazine #153 vol 23 #12 $5.99
Rebel Pink Jul 10 $8.99
Radical History Review spr 10 $14.00
Big Takeover #66 $5.99
Hobart #11 $10.00
Adbusters #90 Jul Aug 10 vol 18 #4 $8.95
Monocle vol 4 #34 Jun 10 $10.00
Shindig vol 2 #16 May Jun 10 $9.99
Reason Jul 10 $3.95
Frieze #131 May 10 $10.00
Mojo #200 Jul 10 $9.99
STOP #1 Start Thinking of the Possibilities $2.00
Venus Zine #43 $4.50
Comics/Comix/Mini Comics
Pizza Time by Joe Vermilyea $5.00
Sundogs #9 Sum 09 & Sundogs #10 by Adam Pasion $3.00 each – Can’t get enough Snakepit? Leave Ben alone and peep on someone else’s life for a change! Adam Pasion’s Sundogs diary comic comes direct to us from his life teaching and drawing in Japan and has that charming day-by-day feel y’ know and love. -EF
Werewolf #1 and Werewolf #2 by Josh Rosen and Penina Gal $5.00 Hairy-ass werewolf comics anthology. Swardlick’s piece is especially good, including this one highly poetic panel wherein the vegan werewolf protagonist declares “Aaah. I have Vomited all my human teeth!!” Werewolf #2 continues some of the full-moon fever from Werewolf #1 and also adds an onslaught of new folks – Denis St John, Laura Terry, Matt Aucoin, Mark Bilokur, Nick Patten, Betsey Swardlick, Joshua Rosen, Stephen Bissette and David Yoder -Comin’ at you like a silver bullet. -EF
Chutzpah by Nomi Kane $5.00 – A real treat – this issue is a homespun origin story of the heroine’s humble beginnings and empowering superpowerment. Do yourself a mitzvah and check it out.
Poetry/Chap Books
Usual Beast Poems and Lyrics by Chris Besinger $10.00
Here by David Mabi $10.00
Nouveau Bored by Marc Gaba $6.00
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Nicole Wilson is the Assistant Programs Director of Poetry and Literature at Columbia College Chicago. Her poems have appeared or are forthcoming in Coconut, Fifth Wednesday, RealPoetik, pacificREVIEW, Rabbit Light Movies, and Another Chicago Magazine, among others.
Kate Dougherty’s e-chapbook, We Trundle We Ignite, is forthcoming from Scantily Clad Press. More poems are published or forthcoming in The Carolina Quarterly, Cannibal, SIR! Magazine, Used Cat, and Action Yes. Kate holds an M.F.A. from Columbia College Chicago,
where she served as editorial assistant on Court Green.
Patrick Culliton’s chapbook Hornet Homily is available from Octopus Books. Recent work has appeared, or will soon, in Another Chicago Magazine, Beeswax, Conduit, Eleven Eleven and elsewhere. He teaches at UIC and Loyola.
For more info: http://www.octopusbooks.net/
